Hardly less than with its founder, Felix Mendelssohn, the Leipzig Gewandhaus grew up with Brahms conducting and playing. For a sense of heritage, the orchestra boasts a Brahms tradition second to none. ‘Tradition is everything to the Gewandhaus,’ said Kurt Masur. ‘It’s what gives us our identity. It’s why we sound like ourselves and not like any other orchestra.’
This collection brings together for the first time, all the Brahms recordings made by Masur and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig between 1973 and 1981 – performances praised for their ‘gorgeous orchestral sound’ (Classics Today), the ‘suave tonal opulence and technical brilliance of both Accardo and Schiff’ (Fanfare), and the ‘fierce concentration and lyric grace’ of Dichter (Gramophone).
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